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Well yesterday. the d.c. press said he out-witted lawmakers. folks in silicon valley are a little more skeptical about his performance. and interesting switch, but hes holding up well under questioning, but you know, to the point of to what end? i think the bigger problem here is theres still a huge trust gap between the tech platforms and lawmakers and i dont think any of today or yesterday is really going to change the big picture regulation thats eventually coming down the pike. >> thats the ...

Internally. he wrote that as an internal note. we had a lot of discussion internally. i disagreed with it. >> would you say you did as a poor job as a ceo communicating your displeasure with such thoughts? because if he had understood where you were at, he would have never said it to begin with? >> well, senator, we try to run our company in a way where people can express different opinions internally. >> well, this is an opinion that really disturbs me. if somebody worked for me that said this,...

Of comments. vast amount of people did too. >> did you a poor job as co communicating your displeasure with such thoughts because he understood where you are at he would have never said it to begin with? >> well, senator, we try to run our company in a way where people can express different opinions internally. >> well, this is an opinion that really disturbs me. and if somebody worked for me that said this, i would fire them. who is your biggest competitor? >> senator, we have a lot of competit...

That he wrote it. if you looked at the comments on the internal discussion, the vast of the people did too. >> he said you did a bad job of communicating your displeasure. if he understood where you were at, he would have never said it to begin with. >> well, senator, we try to run our company in a way where people can express different opinions internally. >> well, this is an opinion that really disturbs me. if somebody worked for me that said this, id fire them. whos your biggest competitor? >...

Americans and their public opinions of technology companies across the board are beginning to change? >> theres no doubt about that. if you go back to 2016, almost every american had a romantic view of these technologies. listen, theyre great, everybody love their iphone but many didnt pay attention to what they were clicking on, you can know everything i buy and know some of my phone records if you click here. now people are waking up and realizing that and realizing thats interesting, were rea...

Welcome back, joining us from washington, d.c. way look at axiosa.m. co-founder jim vande hei. >> their favorability ratings, a massive plunge in how americans think about facebook and the positive feelings they have about it and youre seeing that facebook is pulling down the popularity of other tech platforms and why this matters is that youre seeing lawmakers now rush to talk about whether or not they should be regulating facebook and other social platforms and a real stock market consequence....

Or what that tells you, who likes whatever, chocolate cake over devils food, whatever, angel food. i dont know what these things do, but they somehow tell you how youre going to vote. we thought that was fun and great. now whats the difference here? >> i think were in "a," a different time with regard to tech companies. i think the public discourse around big tech is changing in part because we saw how these tech platforms were used and abused during the 2016 election. the other difference with ...

Look around the country and theres kind of a populist anger at the major tech platforms have a variety of directions. >> theres people deactivating facebook accounts saying im out. >> theres one thing about the concentration and the real power of these tech companies and one of the big issues in the next two to four years is going to be the populist position against them. >> 90% of what we do is online. the idea -- >> they control your distribution. >> they control our distribution, but the idea...

We continue with the ceos of google and youtube. >> all right, so cyber bullying, logan paul, it seems this year has been one horrible accident after another. for not accident. for google and other tech platforms and the responsibilities they have to tack the problem. are we are lying on computers too much to tackle these problems? thats what people feel. you were going to hire more people to deal with content issues. its the same idea of have you relied too much on computers and not enough on p...

Cases and hospitalizations there spike. >> the university of california now planning to bar most unvaccinated students and faculty from in-person classes. the uc system includes ten campuses, about five medical centers with more than 280,000 students statewide. and as weve seen before, cases rise, vaccination pace also falling right now. it is now down about 75% in just the last two months. and that is why the surgeon general just yesterday at the white house revealing that he lost ten family me...